“The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.” ThinkingWorldCountryEarthChristianThis WorldColorTrialsDelightfulAbode Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.” ThinkingWorldWayIdeasFactsChurchUnitedCommonPracticeMembersRelationRegardSacredTranslateProfane Author:Emile Durkheim
“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.” MenWorldShouldHas BeensInterestKnowingReflectionShould HaveSurroundShould Have Been Author:Emile Durkheim
“For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.” IfsMenWorldFirstsLongHas BeensPhilosophyScienceReligionBornReligiousKnownDivineLong TimeAccountsRepresentationSpeculationCosmologyScience And Philosophy Author:Emile Durkheim
“Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.” WorldDoeWholeSadnessProductsSorrowSadMereContemplationJoys And SorrowsSadness Of LifeSadness And Sorrow Author:Emile Durkheim
